8,501 stories from Backstage
More than four decades before the birth of Spider-Man, another masked hero with a dual identity and an indifferent girl next door left his mark on evildoers and generations of eager children…
“What if?” plays (and books and movies, for that matter) seem to have proliferated in recent years, some very successfully. A writer appropriates historical characters and incide…
Fuente Obejuna is a town in Spain whose inhabitants in 1476 rose up against the man who ruled them, killing him. The king sent a judge to investigate the crime, but everybody of whom he aske…
In advance of the Prospect Theater Company's Musical Theater Summer Intensive this July, the company will offer a free audition technique master class with Broadway actor Donna Lynne Champli…
I’ll assuage your curiosity immediately and tell you that the “OP” in “Macbeth OP” stands for “original pronunciation.” The Shakespeare OP Players, …
The right mood and atmosphere are essential for a successful theatrical presentation, but they only go so far. Jonathan Marc Sherman’s “Clive,” directed by and starring Eth…
“Jersey Boys” officially turns 3000 tonight, well 3000 performances that it is. At eight shows a week, the 2006 Tony Award winning musical continues to make theater-goers weak in…
Given Bertolt Brecht’s affection for the “lowbrow” art forms of Weimar Germany, especially the gender-bending and darkly comic musical styles of the cabaret, it’s no …
It’s safe to say that no matter if you love or love-to-hate “Smash,” the theater community was excited for the anticipated season two premiere on Tuesday night—mainly…
Camp Broadway Dance recently announced a last call for the registration to its Feb. 16–18 program for teenage dancers between the ages of 14 and 18. The program enables teens to h…
Just a few weeks after the Sundance Film Festival ended, the Sundance Institute Theatre Program’s 2013 Playwrights Retreat has started. The 13th annual writer’s colony is held at…
Based on a heart-wounding Victor Hugo novel, “The Man Who Laughs” is an extraordinarily clever stage show. The sad tale of an orphan who has been surgically deformed, the corners…
Columbia University’s Morningside Heights location is a far cry from the lights of Broadway and further still from the downtown haunts of Off-Broadway. This year, however, MFA thesis p…
Dancers across the country can put on their newsboy caps and go to any of nine open calls this spring for a chance to dance on Broadway in “Newsies the Musical,” the show’s…
Part English-literature lecture, part performance piece, Tina Packer’s “Women of Will” is a mostly enjoyable and enlightening overview of Shakespeare’s female roles. …
“I admire people who do things,” says Louise Finch early on in Elisabeth Karlin’s entertaining dramedy “Bodega Bay.” “I don’t do anything.” As…
Stagehands will soon join not-for-profit Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of "The Mountaintop."
After a two-plus-weeks strike, Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) has finally struck …
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AADA offers training options each summer through its special two-week intensives and five-week conservatory program…
For the first time in the show’s history, actors are now able to audition online for the Broadway and national touring companies of “The Lion King,” producers announced Jan…
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Encores! is bringing back its very first concert offering, “Fiorello!,” the 1959 Broadway musical hit based on the life of New York Mayor Fiore…
It seems that acting is but one of Hamish Linklater’s talents. His play “The Vandal” is getting its world premiere downtown at the intrepid Flea Theater, and Linklater&rsqu…
Some flops are better left buried. Such is the case with “Moose Murders,” perhaps the most infamously awful show in Broadway history. This farcical concoction about serial killin…
Six years ago Wesley Autrey was one of the most talked-about men in New York, although few knew him by name. He was better known as the “Subway Superman,” the city hero who saved…
Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow became a pop superstar in the 1970s just as I reached adulthood, but I have only purchased one Manilow album in my life: 1984’s “2:00 AM Paradise …
Spending 80 minutes with Martin Moran is like passing time in the classroom of life. Scenic designer Mark Wendland has even set up the stage at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater to look like the f…
